Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday- Page 2

[courtnyj]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#25

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:05pm

Ahhh! Sweeney Todd references!
(I'm watching it now) Updated On: 3/4/07 at 08:05 PM

[Gothampc]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#26

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:11pm

The Dark Stanley sequence was a parody on Edward Gorey.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[courtnyj]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#27

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:16pm

Oh...huh?

[Sumofallthings]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#28

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:16pm

This is horribly unfunny.

BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

[courtnyj]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#29

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:19pm

The therapist is Meg Ryan....so pathetic that I know that....

[Gothampc]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#30

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:22pm

Agnes Skinner as Mame

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

[wonderfulwizard11]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#31

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:22pm

Oh God, stop the Sound of Music crap.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[SporkGoddess]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#32

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:22pm

Simpsons sucks now, but Family Guy is about a thousand times worse.

I'm flipping back between this and Grease. Now I have to stay for the Sondheim cameo!

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!

[Sumofallthings]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#33

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:26pm

Sondheim was actually the funniest part.

"Lemon!"

BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

[FOAnatic]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#34

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:26pm

That was pretty brilliant.

"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde

[SporkGoddess]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#35

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:27pm

Oh God, I laughed so hard! That was awesome, and so theatre geeky.

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!

[TheActr97J]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#36

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:29pm

That was fabulous! Wish I could say the same for the rest of the show.

"I seem to have wandered into the BRAIN load-out thread... "
-best12bars

"Sorry I am a Theatre major not a English Major"
-skibumb5290

[Yankeefan007]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#37

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:31pm

This was easily one of the funniest episodes they've done in 5 years.

If only the past 5 years were like this.

Did Sondheim write his own music?

[Sumofallthings]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#38

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:32pm

The show after it is horribly unfunny.

BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

[Prisoner 24601]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#39

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:36pm

The credits went by really fast, but it said that Sondheim wrote the Buzz Cola jingle (or at least the music for it)

Is it just me or did the Dark Stanley underscoring music sound extremely un-Elfman like? Was that intentional, or did someone else write it?

-Was that a fart?
-My fault, I fear.

Updated On: 3/4/07 at 08:36 PM

[jasonf]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#40

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:37pm

"Simpsons sucks now... I'm flipping back between this and Grease"

Now THAT'S funny.


The music in the episode was exceptionally good - better than usual for the show.

Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.

[ElFantasma14]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#41

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:38pm

Danny Elfman only did the theme song; everything else is written by someone else.

[BustopherPhantom]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#42

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:40pm

That WAS really funny... I guess my only disappointment had to do with what I would have loved to see - Sondheim punching Krusty out when he said "Just do what you did in CATS!".

Still, that jingle was great. Can't wait for Bernadette Peters to sing it at a future Sondheim concert.

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[Broadwayfanatic2]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#43

Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:58pm

Just finished watching it!

Although, like BobbyBubby I think it would of been funnier if Family Guy had done it. The episode that they made fun of Annie was just hilarious.

Overall great episode with great music. It's fun that they have something like that these days for theatre lovers.

[SporkGoddess]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#44

Posted: 3/4/07 at 9:00pm

jasonf: I watched it this week because they said it'd be a musical episode.

Eh, I don't think FG does musical parodies that well. South Park does it better.

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!

Updated On: 3/4/07 at 09:00 PM

[All_For_Laura]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#45

Posted: 3/4/07 at 9:03pm

Ahh that was so funny! I loved it!

...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

[keen on kean]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#46

Posted: 3/4/07 at 9:06pm

Liked the Sondheim part but expected more. Loved the Dark Stanley illustrations like Gorey's.

[jv92]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#47

Posted: 3/4/07 at 9:16pm

Alf Clauson (sp?) does all of the music for The Simpsons, with the writers doing the song lyrics usually.
I wish he could have been on longer, but he was quite funny. One of the series' best parodies of a musical since its heyday.

[StephenSondheimWHOO]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#48

Posted: 3/4/07 at 9:52pm

Sh!t Sh!t FUC*ING GOD DAMN AHHHHHHHHH. I totaly forgot. Shi!t

[keen on kean]

re: Sondheim to play himself on The Simpsons this Sunday#49

Posted: 3/4/07 at 10:05pm

SondheimWHOO - if it is any comfort, the 30 second clip on fox' website was more than half of the Sondheim segment.